All,
We had a few items on our agenda’s today, with the fist one to check out the Pink Lady Slippers this weekend to see if any of the smaller flowers were ready to photograph, and we learned quickly they are slow growers. They were only about and inch taller. However, we did learn that when the slipper is white as it was last weekend, that means come back in one week and it will be pink
This ant was on it.
Jessica found another one across the plastic bridge but it appears to be fading. From there we embarked on the more strenuous activity for the day, and that was to search for stones and explore the woods again behind the stone mountain off of Carranza Road. If you haven’t been to the stone mountain now is the time to go. They burned the place and you can see quite well where the stone mining operations were at the top.
As I said we have been back there somewhat before, so a few of these photo’s may be familiar to some of you. When we went the first time we were looking for property corners made from small gage railroad tracks and found them after a surveyor for the adjacent property owners had passed through. We visited them again today on our trek to go deeper into the woods. These are pounded into the ground and will never come out without some serious digging.
Jessica on an old corduroy road.
We found many state monuments and a few stones, and this one is not long for this world.
That area has savannahs and old bogs and it is criss-crossed with canals all over. On this corner we found this old wooden pole for a fence that is long gone except where we found parts of it buried in the ground while digging for stones. You can see the intersecting canals in the photo’s.
We traveled from Carranza Road through the woods all the way to the far corner of the Wharton property on the road to the Jersey-Maine Deer Club hidden away in a remote section of the woods there. It is obvious they do not have electricity because we heard the generator they used for that purpose. It is private property so I had to stay on Wharton property as best I could which is right near the entrance to their place. Jessica found the final monument of the day on the opposite side of the road from the stone. I zoomed in for this shot.
We started at the first link and walked to the state corner at the second link.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.803453&lng=-74.675985&z=15&type=k&gpx=
The cleared area just below the pointer is the gun club property. Looking over older aerials you can see that something was going on there many years ago, but later aerial show it in decline. Recent aerials show they are clearing it again for the gun club activities.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.798986&lng=-74.690353&z=15&type=k&gpx=
Guy
We had a few items on our agenda’s today, with the fist one to check out the Pink Lady Slippers this weekend to see if any of the smaller flowers were ready to photograph, and we learned quickly they are slow growers. They were only about and inch taller. However, we did learn that when the slipper is white as it was last weekend, that means come back in one week and it will be pink
This ant was on it.
Jessica found another one across the plastic bridge but it appears to be fading. From there we embarked on the more strenuous activity for the day, and that was to search for stones and explore the woods again behind the stone mountain off of Carranza Road. If you haven’t been to the stone mountain now is the time to go. They burned the place and you can see quite well where the stone mining operations were at the top.
As I said we have been back there somewhat before, so a few of these photo’s may be familiar to some of you. When we went the first time we were looking for property corners made from small gage railroad tracks and found them after a surveyor for the adjacent property owners had passed through. We visited them again today on our trek to go deeper into the woods. These are pounded into the ground and will never come out without some serious digging.
Jessica on an old corduroy road.
We found many state monuments and a few stones, and this one is not long for this world.
That area has savannahs and old bogs and it is criss-crossed with canals all over. On this corner we found this old wooden pole for a fence that is long gone except where we found parts of it buried in the ground while digging for stones. You can see the intersecting canals in the photo’s.
We traveled from Carranza Road through the woods all the way to the far corner of the Wharton property on the road to the Jersey-Maine Deer Club hidden away in a remote section of the woods there. It is obvious they do not have electricity because we heard the generator they used for that purpose. It is private property so I had to stay on Wharton property as best I could which is right near the entrance to their place. Jessica found the final monument of the day on the opposite side of the road from the stone. I zoomed in for this shot.
We started at the first link and walked to the state corner at the second link.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.803453&lng=-74.675985&z=15&type=k&gpx=
The cleared area just below the pointer is the gun club property. Looking over older aerials you can see that something was going on there many years ago, but later aerial show it in decline. Recent aerials show they are clearing it again for the gun club activities.
http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.798986&lng=-74.690353&z=15&type=k&gpx=
Guy
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